Charlotte Tilbury: ‘I wear make-up to bed’

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Cara Delevingne and Charlotte Tilbury at The House of Rock n’Kohl at SelfridgesDave M. Benett/Getty Images

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Lydia Slater

Last updated at 12:01AM, July 10 2013

Most women aren’t eager to unveil the artifice that keeps them looking their best. Not so for the make-up artist to the stars . . .

There are plenty of pretty young women milling around Selfridges on Oxford Street in London. But it’s Charlotte Tilbury, 40, who is turning heads. With her mane of flaming red hair, slanting green eyes that match her Prada platforms, creamy cleavage bursting out of a low-cut frock in shades of peacock, she cuts a striking figure. She looks like a mermaid swimming through the make-up department.

But Charlotte says that her glamour is an illusion. “The colours that I use on my eyes make them look a lot greener than they actually are,” she assures me. “The eyeliner makes them